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Canuck Soldier Off To France Gets A Mouth-Organ L*«iy Aitor, American-born member of the' Biitish pailiiuatni, hands a inouth-oifc'an to a Canadian ••MlsT M ho »ailB for Franceâ€" one cf the fir»t contingent from the new world to join the B.E.F.â€" he didn't Mjr in France long. These Canadians had barely reached France when news of the armistice forced evacu- AUOB «f the B.E.F. VOICE OF THE PRESS ' NOT MUCH FUN Hiuttt for motorists: Watch the . y«d lights, the intersecting atieets, Hm level crossings, the car in i^ont and the car behind. After t^kst I hey can enjoy the acenery. â€" Ottawa Journal. • â€" o â€" MAY STILL SNORE At Pontiac, Mich., a court has (lanted a petition of a minister forbidding members of hia con- (regalion from rattling papers, whispering or making faces at the pieacher. Apparently it will stiil h* in order to aleep, snore or ••ugh. â€" St. Thomas Tinies-Journal. â€" c â€" THE HARDY PIONEERS Pioneer life in Western Ontari) 120 years ago was a continual Ultzkrieg against wolves, bear?, famine, sickness, or cold. When w }iave become as hardy as they vare, we shall fear no Invader. â€" Ijondon Free Press. â€" o. â€" • FORKING FOR EVERYBODY Next time the income tax folks •â- k us who we are worklug tor !•• shall tell them for the instal- â- kcnt men, coal dealer, two banks, â- 11 Insurance company, an auto- â- ftobilc denier and the rest of the Hmt f(ir the groceryman. â€"Brandon Sun. Says It's Permissible To Split Infinitives School Committeeman Joseph !<•• of Boston, Mass., thinks school children and teachers In â- â€¢â€¢ton should he pernirt<t*d to SIH infinitives "any damn wny •y winh." Seek Travel Perm its A (cenf outside the pH-^|iort Wice in Wfstmin.iti-r, London, as Britishers awaited permits for rklidrcn and relatives srekinK to travel to ('aiiada. Ihe gi)\crnm<'ia li arraMginir to evacunif hiindir.s •f childii'D to the d'>niiiilun». Ha proposed in a motion at a committee meeting last week that .Sclvool Superintendent Arthur L. Gould be instructed to issue an order advising the teachers and pupils that split infinitives are all fJtfht. "Too often," he >."liarged, "lan- guage is taught by a set of rules, rather than as a means of con- viying thought." The committee, however, de- clined to immediately act on his mo+ion. Quebec Speed Laws Changed Motorists Must Now Uas Own Discretion on Open Roads Qubbeo motorists are allowed to use their discretion In the matter of speed wlien travelling on hard- surfaced hlKhways wliere there are no dwellings or buildings, as the* result of an amendment to the Motor Vehlrle Act pnssei! hy the Legislative A.ssembly but "an un- reasonable speed," Is forbidilin. IN BUILT UP AUEAS The bill wbleli Is now operative, also (orbldx a sptod In excess of 50 miles an hour on hard-surfaced roads to which dwellings or build- ings have access. Motorists Diny travel at 40 miles psT hour on mountain roads or on gravel roods affording good risibil- ity in a straight lino, but must also slow down to 'i{) miles pt'r hour on winding mouutalu roads, on curved, In commercial districts, in front of aulioole, at Intersections and at the Isvel railway crossings. It Is forbid- den to pass on a curve or nhen climbing a steep hill. SIGNALLING KEQUIKED Specific rulings will also be en- forced In connection with ilKnals. The bill states: "Every driver of a vehicle deslr- f)iK to stop, alow down or turn on ttie road nuist make the following slynals: r^ft turn: place Uie arm horl- Bontally; right turn: place the fore- arm upwards: stop or lessening ot speed place the arm downwards. BT»ry driver must stop at e\ ery pl«c« wher«< there Is a stop sliin. No More Coffee For Italian People Coffee if no longer available to Italian civilian.-*, it was report- ed In a broadcast picked up in New York. Only the armed forces and hos- pitals contiiuic to receive lupplie* of coffee, which are impoited. Next to wine, coffee is the basic beverage of the Italian people. SCOUTING... One hundred Scouts and lead- ers repa-esenting ail different troops of the Parkdale Area of Toronto paid their annual week- end visit to the 16th Troop of Buffalo, N.Y. Part of the pro- gramme was a sight-seeing tour, after which the Canadian boys joined the American Scouts in decorating he graves of Buffalo's war heroes. • • • A field day programme for Scouts of the 1st Brant (School for the Blind) Troop of Brant- ford) was surpri.singly like that of Scouts with nil their facultie.<. Kach patron ran a mile, using "Scout's pace" (alternately walk- ing and running so many paces). They erected a flagpole using five Scout staves and only four ropes, deciphered a message in Morse and treated a patient whose injui'ies were detailed in the mess- age, and finally built a fire and boiled a pint of water. The after- noon's activileis ended with s â- â€¢caiiipfire and sing-song. « « • In formally thanking Ot>awa Boy Scouts for sel•^â- ices rendered during thi recent big Tri-District Conference of International Ro- tary held in the Capital, Confer- ence Secretary Norman G. Foster declared, "we would feel incap- abl: of handling such a large crowd without the assistance of the Boy Scouts." • « • A composite troop of Kingston, Ont., Scouts joined some 200 Am- erican Scouls of the Jefferson Lewis district for a week-end "Camporee" at Grass Point State Park, N.Y. The Camporee was one of a series of international Scout get-together.s of the adjac- ent border districts which began last year on the occasion of the visit of Their Majesties. • • • 'I'immins, Ont., Rover Scouts, uniler the direction of the police, proved so efficient in handlins traffic during the recent North- ern Ontario Scholastic Track and Field Meet at Timniins that Chief of Police (iagnon is formulating plans for Tegular use of the older Scouts in handling the town's traffio problem. This probably will include directing traffic at the city's main intersections on .Vat unlay evenings. World Population Increases Yearly According to the figures of the League of .Nations, the average annual increase in population in the world is 30,000,000. Other estimates are L'0, 000,000 a year. Refugee Children Need Adjustment Montreal Mental Hygiene In- stitute Official Warns cf The Heavy Strain Child Evacuees Are Under riiangft of environment under emotional stress subjects refugee children to an unusually heavy strain. In the opinion of .Mrs. W. T. B. Mitchell, director of the educa- tional program of the Montreal fly- gleno Institute and a member ot the executive of the newly-formed Quebec Provincial Council of Home and School. "The satisfactory adjustment of refugee children to their new en- vironment lu Canada demands a careful correlation ot home and school with the various institutions in the community which are inier- estcd actively In child welfare," she declared. "However well Intentioned the parents are, good Intentions alone cannot take the place of Intelligent knowledge and understanding. This Is particularly the case with Strang*, children who enter homes undtr emotional stress such as will be oc- casioned by their removal from Great Britain to this Dominion. PROVIDE SUITABLE ENVIRONMENT "It should be the duty of parrnta and particularly foster parentF, to take advantage of all organizations In the community whose programs are directed towards providing suit- able environmental conditions and proper child guidance. With Intelli- gent guidance, a developing child not only can but will learn to con- sider the rights and privileges ot others as ot equal importance with his own; he will learn to be social- ly co-operative and contributive; he â- will develop self-expressive, creat- ive .Interests and activities; he will learn to tackle the daily problems and difficulties he meets with Ju- telligent planfulness. efticlent skill and perseverance. "Nut" Drivers Found Menace Ousting Urged; 15,000 Lives A Year Could Be Saved In The United States, Is Claim Lives ot the 15,000 persons killed Is traffic accidents In the United States each year might be saved it "nut drivers" were eliminated with mental tests, the American Medical Association was told at its conven- tion. Agreeing with popular opinion. Dr. Lowell S. Selling, ot Detroit, Mich., reported that me>utal examin- ations ot traffic offenders In the re- corder's court ot that city showed that many of them had Just about enough sense to turn a steering wheel and step on the accelerator. The tests made on persons haled Into court include a physical exam- ination and tests ot reaction time. Judgment ot speed and distance, and color blindness. In addition, the of- fenders are submitted to mental tests, he said, and rc(iuire<l to give their entire history, in otder to ob- tain their lnte.llisence rating. "When lutelligence is rated be- low normal a driver Is obviously not competent to drive, no matter how well he may react mechanical- ly," I>. Selling dcclarCKl, because his Judgment In an emergency Is sure to be faulty. As a result many licenses ot drivers are cancel'e<l. Solace Found In Gadeninfi^ Working With Nature te Create Something of Beauty These are times that try mens souls - and talths. Ideas and ideals which for centuries have seemed solid as stone dissolve and disap- pear almost overnight. The mind is left groping for any realities that •will endure; for any fundamentals that remain unshaken, tnys the New York Times. In such an emergency contact with the earth, with the cycles of growing things which follow pat- terns that remain unshaken even when capitals are stormed and ch- lllzatlons are ove-r-turned, assumes a new Imiiortanee. offers an anchor to sanity. /fQfteaiCH€^<f4f ^oad mup £xclud*oe flc4i44H^ Siao4U MZ4 CONTACT WITH THE EARTH It is small wonder then that In such times ot stress men and wo- men have always found a healing and stabilizing solace In garden- lug â€" a sense ot security that may be unreasoned but is none the h a effective. Such a solace la not "es- cape," It Is the fundamental reas- surance that comes from Intima'e contact with fundamental things. It goes back farther and roots deeper than the upheavals wrought by all of history's men on horseback. These have come, but they ha\e gone; and the grass roots that a surging tank crushes beneath ''s Uaeks remain, and will be growlijg green again when the steel pla'cs rust and th« driver has long la'n forgotten. Those who . hare gardens, wiio have bad personal experience r.f this soul and nerve mending con- tact with earth and growing plants, need not be told these things. And ethers, seeking something to turn to for a measure ot relief and ot reorientation In these dark days, will discover them. In ever-lncreas- lug numbers, as time goes by. Acd working, with nature, to create something of beauty, something of usefulness, U the oldest and it'! the surest anodyne In an atuioh- phere of well-nigh universal des- truction. Car Industry Will Change Chrysler President Says New Tax Will Alter Type of Ojt- put in Canada John D. Mansfield, president ot the Chrysler Corporation ot Can- aula. Limited, said In Windsor last week he believed the automobile Industry would be able to adjust Itsilt to conditions arising out o; the new taxts on motor cars and maintain the volume ot business re- quired. His statement follows: "It is too soon to say with ;;isur- aiu J what the full effect ot the new budget will be on the operations ot ihe automobile industry. I have every confidence, however, that the Industry will be able to adjust it- self to the new conditions and to maintain the volume ot business necessary to efficient operation. "Industrial and commercial mo- tor transportation have been wo- ven so thoroughly iritc our niclonal economy that It is not reasuuaijie to believe that they will or :in be reduced below the ievel ot their necessary contribution to ua'icnal efficiency under any coijditi>>rj.s. "I would even hfeiajO tb-? belief that the war economy will i-u^rease rather than 'reduce tne n-r;a6.-iiiy for motor vehicles, although the kinds ot motor vehi'-.'es r--iiiired may be changed. A Tug-of-War To Bring Rain Burmese girls he;d a -.igof- war at Mandalay f«r 6 d*vH â€" to bring about a storm. Th^/ be- lieve that ill-luc'.: 'otfalis a.'-y yor.r when no rain faijs iramijiiateiy before the Thingyan. Burmese water-throwing fe.?'jv}ij. Lock Your Car A joy ride in a Eto'.en M automobile ended in dea: one of the occupants. Thi- unpleasant reminder, sa:- Canadian Police Bulletin, :". joy-riding season is a; ha: that there are quite a few who are not abcve seiziii parked auto for the purpo= remedy is for motorists ' their cars when they leav; on the streets. The pre may prevent theft urnl ; save life. liTcreal :>. for is an â- â€¢ the at the : jnd youtf'S •: any One lock • ziiera ;autioa . v-hapa YOU after rolllns 20, you ar« not totisfied tha they ore smoother and better cigorettet, we wi^i cheerfully refund the purchase price TheTASTESTmy to Smkinq Pleasure LIFE'S LIKE THAT By Fred N^p.^r MRS'. P1P5 DIARY ? "0 e-i r |0«f^«M, l*M. ».i rrol VtU "Jutt think, dear, no work for tw-o week*!!'* REG'LAR FELLERSâ€" The Art Critic By GENE BYRNES miiiiiiifiiiiiiiiiiiiMwaii^^